Healthcare, Biotech and Pharmaceutical Leaders to Meet With Investors in Search of Breakthrough Business Solutions at 'The Global Leaders Healthcare Forum' in San Francisco January 10

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of CEOs
from the healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical industries plan to
huddle next month with investment professionals to seek new
business models to bridge healthcare's gap between innovation and
financial resources. They will be meeting at the 2nd Annual
Global Leaders Healthcare Forum, in San Francisco on January 10,
2012. The forum is hosted by The Global Leaders, an exclusive
business network of 2 million CEOs and other senior executives
worldwide.

Among the presenters announced today will be a panel of former
CEOs of four of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, Jeff
Kindler (Pfizer), Harry Kraemer (Baxter International), Robert G.
Johnson, Jr., MD, PhD (Kosan Biosciences), and Myrtle Potter
(Genentech, Inc.), hosted by George Bickerstaff, former CFO,
Novartis Pharma AG.

"The solutions to the world's urgent healthcare challenges are
within our grasp," said Mr. Bickerstaff, who is Executive Chairman
of The Global Leaders, and Partner and Managing Director of M.M.
Dillon LLC. "The challenge is bringing together the innovators with
the providers of resources to focus on business models that
actually work. For example, the cost of capital for biotech
companies is way above the cost for other companies, by a factor of
five. We need to be able to take healthcare products to
market faster and more cost-effectively. At our forum we'll
be bringing together some of the best and brightest minds in the
world to address one of the biggest challenges facing this
generation or any to follow."

The forum will provide a dialogue among industry experts through
keynote speeches, panel discussions, interactive table meetings
hosted by experts, and informal networking.

The Global Leaders is a unique worldwide digital community of
CEOs and other senior-level executives in business, government,
education and philanthropy. The Global Leaders has 2 million
members who have held senior executive leadership positions in
companies that drive more than 70 percent of the world's Gross
Domestic Product.

The news media and healthcare-focused bloggers will be welcomed
at the forum.